Nick Chertock - From Accountant to Golf Nerd, Open Forum and Instruction Groups

My guest on this episode is Devan Bonebrake. Devan is the currently the host of The Golf Fix on the Golf Channel and the Owner of Studio Golf Club which is a one stop shop of indoor golf training. He is one of the best coaches in California ranked by Golf Digest. He started his career working under the great Jim McLean but has spent time with numerous top coaches along his journey including Mike Bender, Hank Haney, Chuck Cook and Jim Flick. In this awesome conversation we go into how he became the host of the show to how he prepares every week along with the process of building a business with his indoor studios. We also touch on some of his daily habits that keep him fit and what drives him to keep getter better. So without further delay, Here is Devan Bonebrake....enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To sign up for Open Forum https://www.openforumgolf.com/ Whats up everybody and welcome to another episode of the golf guru show, I am your host, Jason Sutton and I am the Guru,  I am  also the director of instruction at the beautiful Colleton River club in Bluffton, SC where it is my mission to break down high performers in the teaching and coaching business and all fields of study, unpack and tease out what makes them great and successful from daily habits, their continuous growth journey,  to how they help and train with their students. Make sure that you download this episode and hit that purple subscribe button so you don't miss out of future episodes that will be coming your way. All I ask is that you share this podcast on social or with your friends and with other coaches and players that might benefit from the information. After listening to the audio, go check out the video on youtube channel as well. My guest on this episode is Nick Chertock. Nick is an accountant by trade and a 10 handicap golfer so you might be asking yourself, why is Guru having him on the show. I'm glad you asked because Nick has been instrumental in creating several golf instruction and biomechanics facebook groups over the years that have brought hundreds of coaches, biomechanics, trainers and fitness professionals together for debates and discussions. He is also one of the people that runs the biggest teaching summit in the country called "Open Forum" along with Michael Michelides and Chris Como. It started in 2013 and is held on the Tuesday of PGA Show week. I have attended every one of them and it is a can't miss every year for teachers, coaches and golf enthusiasts. You can sign up on the website at openforumgolf.com. Follow Nick at @golfprogress on IG and X. It was great to catch up with Nick as conversation took many twists and turns that were very unexpected. So here is my friend Nick Chertock....enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello everyone and welcome to the golf guru show where I break down high performers in the teaching and coaching business. Merry Christmas everyone and thank you all for supporting the show, I am grateful for all that have come along with me on this journey. My guest on this episode needs no introduction as its former tour player Jay Delsing. Jay is a PGA Tour veteran, Life Member of the PGA Tour and PGA of America, and host of the nationally syndicated radio show “Golf With Jay Delsing,” airing in 50 markets across the U.S. A two-time All-American and UCLA economics graduate, Jay played professional golf for more than 25 years before moving into broadcasting. His new memoir, “You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You: An Unforgettable Memoir of Golf, Grit, and a Blue-Collar Kid on the PGA Tour,” is a lively and heartfelt behind-the-ropes look at the PGA Tour, offering lessons in grit, integrity, and leadership.Jay has played in over 700 PGA Tour events over his careeer. In this conversation we discuss his outstanding career in golf, his transition into radio and Jay shares some great stories about some of the people that he has played with and have met along the way including some amazing life lessons that golf has taught him as well as discussing his new book where you can find on Amazon or his website JayDelsinggolf.com Go get it as it's a fantastic read. So let's get to this wide ranging conversation with the great Jay Delsing. Enjoy! Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up everybody and welcome to another episode of the golf guru show, I am your host, Jason Sutton and I am the Guru,  I am  also the director of instruction at the beautiful Colleton River club in Bluffton, SC where it is my mission to break down high performers in the teaching and coaching business and all fields of study, unpack and tease out what makes them great and successful from daily habits, their continuous growth journey,  to how they help and train with their students. Make sure that you download this episode and hit that purple subscribe button so you don't miss out of future episodes that will be coming your way. All I ask is that you share this podcast on social or with your friends and with other coaches and players that might benefit from the information. After listening to the audio, go check out the video on youtube channel as well. This is a special episode as it is a webinar put on by the Carolinas Section in which I am the Committee Chairman. This webinar is titled Career Trajectories in Instruction and was hosted by boss and Director of Golf Eric Shultz who just won the Professional Development award for the section. You can follow him on IG @ericschultz7109. Our panel for this webinar is myself, Eric Alpenfelds, top 100 instructor and Director of Instruction at the Pinehurst Golf Academy and Joe Steadman, Director of Instruction at The Country Club of NC and is a rising star in our section. Joe has a very cool story of how he got into golf and instruction throught a special forces military background. You can follow him on IG @joesteadmangolf. This convo has alot of great information for young and old coaches alike and I wanted to share with all of you. I hope you enjoy this webinar with Eric, Eric, Joe and myself.....enjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whats up everybody and welcome to another episode of the golf guru show, I am your host, Jason Sutton and I am the Guru,  I am  also the director of instruction at the beautiful Colleton River club in Bluffton, SC where it is my mission to break down high performers in the teaching and coaching business and all fields of study, unpack and tease out what makes them great and successful from daily habits, their continuous growth journey,  to how they help and train with their students. Make sure that you download this episode and hit that purple subscribe button so you don't miss out of future episodes that will be coming your way. All I ask is that you share this podcast on social or with your friends and with other coaches and players that might benefit from the information. After listening to the audio, go check out the video on youtube channel as well. My guest on this episode is Dr. Rob Neal. Dr. Neal Rob started Golf BioDynamics, a company formed to provide expert 3D golf swing analysis to the golf coach/golfer www.golfbiodynamics.com. And he has a new marketless 3D system called ELVA that will be coming out at this years PGA Show. We are also joined by his colleague Grétar Eiríksson from Iceland ([email protected])   Some of Dr. Neal's qualifications and accolades include:Member of the Titleist Performance Institute Biomechanics Advisory Board2003 National Award winner for Innovation in Business (Sport) for Golf BioDynamics.Strategic Alliance with Mr Jim McLean (#1 Golf Schools in the USA) 2003 – 2015.3D analysis, testing and advice to numerous tour players including multiple world #1 players, major champions and Ryder Cup representativesConsultant to:AIS & VIS Golf Programs (Melbourne), Jack Newton Junior Golf Foundation (NSW) and QAS golf program (QLD)Numerous international touring players (LPGA, PGA, Australasian and European Tours) German, Danish, Swedish and Swiss national teams and development programsUK PGA, Australian PGA as well as multiple PGA’s in Europe and sections in the USAAppearances on The Golf Channel Development of comprehensive 3D motion analysis systems for golf that allow real time swing animation, biofeedback and analysis.  Development of integrated coaching education courses and curriculaIn this conversation we do a deep dive into short game shots and what his research shows from the best players that he has measured on 3D and launch monitors. Selfishly I wanted to see how close it matched up to what I'm finding with my players as I measure them and what I've seen teaching a bunch of short game. It is always a great exercise to challenge your own information to make sure that what you are teaching is correct. So let's get into my conversation with the brilliant Dr. Rob Neal. Enjoy!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello everyone and welcome to the golf guru show where I break down high performers in the teaching and coaching business. This is a special episode where I am the guest and on the other side of the mic for a change. I was a guest on The golf coach podcast with Australian PGA teaching professional, Toby McGeechie. Unless you dig back into the archives, you may not know some of my background and story so I thought I would post this on my platform as you might find it interesting and informational. We discusss many topics which include my putting philosophy and my recent work with Will McGirt to my take on the short game debate and the way I teach short game and much more. Please folllow and subscribe to this podcast and give Toby a follow as well on Instagram @tmgolf_. So without further delay here is our conversation,,,,, enjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whats up everybody and welcome to another episode of the golf guru show, I am your host, Jason Sutton and I am the Guru,  I am  also the director of instruction at the beautiful Colleton River club in Bluffton, SC where it is my mission to break down high performers in the teaching and coaching business and all fields of study, unpack and tease out what makes them great and successful from daily habits, their continuous growth journey,  to how they help and train with their students. Make sure that you download this episode and hit that purple subscribe button so you don't miss out of future episodes that will be coming your way. All I ask is that you share this podcast on social or with your friends and with other coaches and players that might benefit from the information. After listening to the audio, go check out the video on youtube channel as well. My guest on this episode is Johnathan Buchanan. Johnathan is the director of instruction at Dallas CC where he has been for 14 years. He is a superstar coach that is  on the Golf Digest best in state list and is on the Golf Magazine best young teachers and on the top 100 watch list. I have followed Johnathans career and have always been impressed by how many top coaches that he has spent time with and taken lessons from Butch Harmon, Jimmy Ballard, Chuck Cook and Randy Smith who coached him when he was trying to play and now mentors him in his coaching and there are many more as the list is long which I hugely admire. Johnathan started his career working for the Legend and my great friend, Jim Mclean. Our conversation dives deep into what he learned from each of these coaches and how he has applied it to his coaching. I applaud his thirst for knowledge and his pursuit to be a continuous learner. So without further delay, Here is my conversation with Johnathan Buchanan. Enjoy I love ya'll Guru Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whats up everybody and welcome to another episode of the golf guru show, I am your host, Jason Sutton and I am the Guru,  I am  also the director of instruction at the beautiful Colleton River club in Bluffton, SC where it is my mission to break down high performers in the teaching and coaching business and all fields of study, unpack and tease out what makes them great and successful from daily habits, their continuous growth journey,  to how they help and train with their students. Make sure that you download this episode and hit that purple subscribe button so you don't miss out of future episodes that will be coming your way. All I ask is that you share this podcast on social or with your friends and with other coaches and players that might benefit from the information. My guest this week is Derek Demensky. You can follow him on instagram @bettergolftucson where he has a massive following of more than 149 thousand. A little bit about Derek, he is the director of instruction at the Forty Niner Club in Tucson Arizona where he has been for the past 16 years. He teaches all parts of the game but has found his niche in the short game where he teaches a few tour players, such as Erik Van Rooyan, Michael Thorgbornsen and Matt Wallace and alot of really good college and amateurs as well. He is on the Ping advisory staff and did some really cool research on how the high launch, high spin shot is produced. When I saw that video a few years ago I was amazed at what Derek can do with a wedge which is what makes him so special as he is still a fine player himself. In this conversation we get into everything short game including his framework for assessing whether to use the ground or hit the ball first on your shots around the green to the different pieces that are necessary. We also discuss some of his work with a few of his players and some of the common mistakes that amateurs make around the greens. Finally we cover a few of his favorite drills and how to practice your short game and much more including some personal growth tips and how he stays sharp everyday. This is the first time that I have met Derek and I really enjoyed his caring personality and you can tell that he has intentional passion or golf and for people which is why he is one of the most sought after coaches in the game. So without further adeiu here is Derek Deminski.....enjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick began his instructional career at Odessa National Golf Course in Middletown, DE. Since then, Nick has worked at facilities such as The Polo Club of Boca Raton (Boca Raton, FL), Ardsley Country Club (Irvington, NY), and Chester Valley Golf Club (Malvern, PA). Nick now resides in Malvern, PA where he is the Lead Golf Instructor at Merion Golf Club. Over the course of his coaching career, Nick has earned a wide variety of certifications to help give him a better understanding of the golf swing. Some of Nick's certifications include TPI: Golf Mechanics Level 2, SAM PuttLab Level 3, Aimpoint certified instructor, and is a TrackMan Certified Professional. To help further his knowledge of the golf swing, Nick has been mentored by Top 100 Golf Instructor John Dunigan for over a decade.In this conversation, we discuss his journey to his role as lead instructor at the prestigious Merion Golf Club to digging into how he uses technology and the importance of screening your players to make sure that you understand how they move. We also cover a few case studies of recent lessons and how he approaches a new student and much more. So I hope you enjoy this wide ranging conversation with Nick Iacono....enjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am so excited to have my next guest on the show as it is Performance Consultant, Dr. Raymond Prior. Raymond Prior, Ph.D. is one of the most sought-after names in performance psychology by the world’s best performers. His clients include Major Champions, World Champions, Olympic Gold Medalists, individual and team National Champions, National Coach of the Year Award winners, individual and team Conference Champions, and countless NCAA All-Americans. Dr. Prior also works with corporate executives and other non-sport performers including Grammy winners, Oscar winners, Tony winners, and Emmy winners performing on stage and screen.Dr. Prior is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant by the Association of Applied Sport Psychology. As an author and researcher, Dr. Prior has authored books, contributed chapters to several performance psychology textbooks, and published research in the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology.I have followed Dr. Priors work for a few years, read his book and have listened to his podcast that he co-hosts with Chase Cooper and his information just spoke to me in a way that made sense to me as a coach which is why I was so thrilled to get to talk to him. Dr. Prior works with a bunch of PGA and LPGA tour players so I selfishly wanted to pick his brain on a few case studies so I could help my players and I know it will help you. In this conversation we cover many topics which include how to build stable confidence to some of the pitfalls that players run into while trying to perform their best. He also gives some great advice to junior golfers and their parents that you don't want to miss as well as some daily habits like mindfulness meditation training and cold plunging and more importantly the science and research behind it that will give you some tools to do what he calls "play freely. So without further delay, I bring you the brilliant Dr. Raymond Prior...enjoy! Dr. Priors website http://www.btsmindset.com Thank you to our sponsor http://www.istruzi.com Love y'all Guru Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices